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This afternoon we welcomed James and Graham from Bible Explorers into school again to work with Year 5. For the next five weeks, they will be coming into our class to help us learn about the Old Testament. We will be learning 40 actions which will help us remember the events of the old testament…

Fashion design club met after school today for the first time ever, thanks to Mrs. Couchman. If you are interested in joining, there are still places available. 

Today we started our Christmas cards. We needed to start really early as we are making layered prints and they take a long time to dry... We were joined by Mrs St-John, who is an art teacher. She helped us to design an effective image and do our first layer of prints. We'll show you how they turn…

We have been having fun dancing with Coach Louise today. 

Coach Louise is teaching us dance this half term and we are looking at different styles of dance. We were looking at salsa style of dance this week. 

Today, we were learning about our circulatory system - how the blood moves around our bodies, providing our muscles with oxygen from our lungs. As part of our learning, we looked at some lambs' hearts to investigate how the vessels are linked inside.

On Thursday 7th November, Year 6 visited Clitheroe Castle to learn more about World War 1 and the importance of remembrance. We looked at a special tin, given to each soldier by Princess Mary as a Christmas gift in December 2014. This particular tin was found in no-man's land and contained a…

Year 5 have had the first day of their Playleaders training today. They have been learning how to lead activities with the infants at playtime. They have devised games which they have then learnt to explain to other children and supervise. Their training continues next Wednesday.

We enjoyed a walk in the garden looking at all the different leaves and berries.

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We took our poorly bears to visit the real doctors that came to see us. We drew our bear and told the doctor what was wrong with them. We then looked at all the doctors' tools and helped make them better. 

Can you fit 5 people through an A4 piece of paper? If you think the answer is no, then talk to some Year 6 children who now know better! This is because we were visited today by Dr Irene Wise from Lancaster University who talked to us about  STEM skills (Science, Technology, Engineering and…

Mr Weston came in this afternoon to explain why different parts of the Bible were originally written in Hebrew and Greek. He showed us how to write our names in both Hebrew and Greek. Hebrew was especially difficult as it is written from right to left and doesn't use familiar letters. He also…